While the biosimilars industry has welcomed individual pockets of progress around regulatory streamlining, it is essential that approaches from global authorities move forward together if they are to have a meaningful impact on biosimilar development. At Medicines for Europe’s annual biosimilars conference, regulators from around the world talked about how their thinking is converging.
A panel of international regulators discussed convergence around biosimilar streamlining (Medicines for Europe) (Medicines for Europe)
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Regulators from around the world shared their thoughts on the need for regulatory convergence when it comes to developing biosimilars.
Successes are increasingly being seen in the area of regulatory streamlining for biosimilars. Individual markets such as the UK have...
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A list of EU biosimilar filings, CHMP opinions and EU marketing authorizations, including details of the biosimilar company, the brand name/INN, indication(s), the reference product/company, and the date and type of event.
While the biosimilars industry has welcomed individual pockets of progress around regulatory streamlining, it is essential that approaches from global authorities move forward together if they are to have a meaningful impact on biosimilar development. At Medicines for Europe’s annual biosimilars conference, regulators from around the world talked about how their thinking is converging.
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